Narrator: He did not.

I agree with this, but also have to note that it looks like Yud's had some coaching when it comes to public speaking, based on the video in the Tweet.

> means that you're good at everything Except being socially competent, apparently. There's this bizarre doubletalk here that boils down to "I'm better at everything than you, and that's why I suck at being personable and persuasive."

He's LARPing the engineer syndrome, though. He's a fanfic writer with forays into writing third-hand scientific popularizations.

What is the obsession with the very ancient and secret rite in detestation of Gould, lol? Must be envy.

I mean I'm autistic, but I'm not a moron. I think these people are just the right kind of stupid.

My Autistic friends and family describe how frustrating it is to live in a world set up by and for Neurotypicals: They say there are all of these secret rules that everyone knows but won't tell them about and gets mad at them for not following. Rationalists say that this is true. There are a whole bunch of secret rules, and the secret rules are stupid, and you should stop following them. And then they offer you an entirely different set of secret rules, which will unlock an entirely different world set up by and for Rationalists. So it's a cult engineered to take in people, by first affirming and naming a real struggle that they have, and then offering them power. People with Autism are prone to thinking rigidly in groupings and classifications, the way young people do before the prefrontal cortex is fully up and running. That's one of the quirks of Autism: you can be of above average intelligence and still have those zones of development that aren't functioning correctly. It may lead to a prescriptivist vision for life, a hierarchical concept of societal roles and worth, and makes you susceptible to buying into all kinds of bigotry, if you fall in with the wrong gurus. Just like cult leaders target young people who are still seeking to unlock the secrets of the universe, Rationalists offer those secrets to people with Autism. This happened to my mom, who is Autistic and who fell in with the Dr. Dobson, Focus on the Family types. They told her how the world works, what the order is, what her role in it was, and how she should then treat other people. They coached her on being a physically abusive parent. There was a methodology and a philosophy and an explanation for why you should disregard the emotions that tell you "What I'm doing is wrong and the people I'm doing it to are suffering." So people with Autism aren't naturally misogynistic, aren't naturally believers in racial supremacism, aren't naturally likely to ignore the needs of the people right in front of them because the people right in front of them are irrelevant in the scope of the whole. Autism doesn't make you like that. But when you come across a whole bunch of people who have answers to the questions you've been asking, and who teach you how to think in exciting new ways which, they promise, will bring order to everything-- A group of people who scoff at gender conformity while simultaneously promoting rigid concepts about gender, and dismissing women outside of their group as emotional and therefore irrational-- A group of people who celebrate Autism as a more-evolved way of being human and who despise social conventions, including the social conventions that the weak are to be protected and the cruel are to be discouraged-- You can turn benign people into something malignant, and there will be a disproportionately-large percentage of that group that is Autistic, both because that's how you've branded your group, AND because the group message, about unlocking a few perfect formulas to thinking liberated from feeling, is most likely to send up warning signals in people who are NOT Autistic.